Moon Shadow understood. She became a scarlet-red long sword and fell into Xu Xing's hand.
Earlier, when he had been entangled with Heavenly Will, the two had influenced each other, so he hadn't noticed. He had only thought the Beast God was violent and crazed.
Yuanjun had already told him everything that had happened in the Beast God Realm through their karmic threads, including the Beast God's various actions.
But, thinking about it, it made sense.
After all, the Beast God had openly defeated Xi. It was only natural that he possessed such spirit.
What surprised Xu Xing was that Remorse had been the first to agree to this.
"Very well. Since I've gained some insight through you on this journey, I'll test my sword."
Come to think of it, he hadn't gone all out since emerging from seclusion.
At Mystic Sword City, Moon Shadow hadn't been by his side, and he had swung his sword only to foil Gu's plot and free Confusion from danger.
At the Righteous Alliance, he had swung his sword only to sever their connection and save his fellow Daoist Meng Xuan.
Not long ago, when he and the others had joined forces to beat up Gu, his final swing had merely been to finish things off. Even then, he hadn't given it his all.
And the sword he had swung in the Beast God Realm had been only a strand of Divine Sense and Moon Shadow's Sword Qi.
He made up his mind.
Beside the World-Deriving Instrument, Xu Xing remained calm. He raised the long sword in his hand and, following the karmic thread that disappeared into the unknowable, swept it out unhurriedly.
Across the Chaos Sea, from a higher vantage, he swung toward the Beast God, who had already arrived outside the Beast